I'm shaving my head to raise money for childhood cancer research! Did you know that kids' cancers are different from adult cancers? It's true. And childhood cancer research is extremely underfunded. So I decided to do something about it by raising money for cures.

Now I need your help! Will you make a donation? Every dollar makes a difference for the thousands of infants, children, teens, and young adults fighting childhood cancers. My sister Maddie was diagnosed with ALL--acute lymphoblastic leukemia--when she was 2. For more than 2 years, I watched her go through chemotherapy and visited her in the hospital more times than I can count. She went bald, but since she was only 2-1/2 at the time, she didn't really care! Now she is 5 and in remission. Her chemotherapy saved her life but also caused lots of problems for her. She is in occupational and physical therapy 4x/week and has lots of developmental delays. I am so glad the treatments saved her life, but now we need to research how to minimize the side effects so kids don't have to suffer through what Maddie is. She has trouble running, skipping, jumping, climbing stairs. She is just now learning to draw a circle and can't write or draw anything but scribble. Despite that, when she talks, she's a normal kid and says the funniest things! The therapists say she knows what to do (she'll tell you!) but that she can't process the thoughts in her brain and then "execute" them. I don't really understand, but I know it's all because of the chemo and what it did to her. Sometimes it is cute, but most of the time I feel bad for her because I'm afraid it will just get harder for her as she gets older.